Field Activity NO105LA

Identifier NO105LA
Alternate names N-O1-05-LA
Purpose Document and analyze geotechnical and structural deformations of failed levee sections that occurred during Hurricane Katrina and that led to the flooding of New Orleans.
Description United States Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California. Chief Scientists: Rob Kayen, Brian Collins. Terrestrial LIDAR data (LIDAR) of field activity N-O1-05-LA in New Orleans, Louisiana from 10/09/2005 to 10/14/2005
Location Louisiana
Summary Field observations of failure modes and 144 individual terrestrial lidar scans, each containing several million data points
Info derived Field observations and topographic data
Comments Staff information imported from InfoBank Rob Kayen (USGS) - Chief Scientist Brian Collins (UC Berkeley, USGS) - Civil Engineer Non USGS data manager = Brian Collins
Projects
Itinerary
Start (port not specified) 2005-10-09
End (port not specified) 2005-10-14
Bounds
West -94.75
East -88.25
North 33.25
South 28.25
Activity Terrestrial LIDAR

Personnel

Organization
2885 Mission Street
Santa Cruz, CA95060
(831) 460-7401
Principal investigators Robert E Kayen
Crew members
Information specialist(s)
PARTNER,
Specialist, Information
Affiliate principal Brian Collins
Affiliate staff Brian Collins (UC Berkeley, USGS) - Civil Engineer

Data types and categories

Data category: Location-Elevation
Data type: LIDAR

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
LIDAR LIDAR (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity